Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
Cultivating compassion for ourselves and others
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Cultivating Compassion 
Jun 26, 2020 An interview with Rachelle LaNae for the Wreck Your Perfection podcast, a podcast program that features interviews “exploring the creative process and the inner critic in order to find out not just how to tackle perfectionism in our young people, but also in ourselves.”
- Meeting the Dharma and becoming a nun
- Working on the book series with the Dalai Lama
- Cultivating compassion
- Accepting ourselves in the present and improving in the future
Compassion for ourselves and others (download)
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
